A Battlefield tweet points to a post on Vine with a teaser for an upcoming Battlefield 4 video reveal. Word is: "Straight from the video editing suite: Prepare 4 Battle - 03.27! This sneak peek now, more soon." EA has announced plans to officially unveil the next installment in the military shooter series on March 26th, which seems the likely date to expect the full trailer to debut, but maybe it will be the 27th instead. Thanks TweakTown.

I'm personally looking forward to BF4. I'm about to fire up BF3 right now, and still find it's the best multiplayer game out there at the moment. With 200 hours in, I've certainly gotten my money's worth, and while I do see the occasional cheater, it's far less common than people make it seem. That, or if there are that many cheaters out there, they suck.

BF4 will probably be futuristic, given that there's some easter egg hints about the setting in the End Game maps.

Moog wrote on Mar 19, 2013, 16:10:No-one has even mentioned how hackers/cheaters/whatever-you-want-to-call-them ruined BF3.

[Ah, apologies to Panickd, you did mention it - I missed that, sorry.]

No idea what state BF3 is in now, gave up before the first DLC due to the hacking scum ruining nearly every game!

Wouldn't touch BF4 on launch with a bargepole - need to hear it isn't compromised.

QFT. The day I got knifed while driving a tank in BF3 was the day I called it quits and uninstalled. I hear it's better now but that's more due to BF3 being old and the hackers having moved on to newer games than anything DICE/EA did to fix it.

Basically they're releasing a new Battlefield to coincide with the new console releases.Sounds like pretty much the same game, which in turn sounds like a no-sale for me unless they really do something innovative.BF3 still has a lot of life in it.

On the topic of cheaters. I've only played a handful of games in BF3 where a cheater has been really apparent.

EDIT: Fuck them and their microtransactions.. and fuck em for outlining the DLC already. If you're going to outline maps this early, they should be in the goddam retail version./end rant

Jivaro wrote on Mar 19, 2013, 10:41:I know I am preaching to the choir....but damn I wish they would include bots for offline play

Totally with you on that! But I want to also be able to host my own private server and use them with friends, just to practice and mess around a bit whenever we feel like it (like we do with CS:GO and many other games). Some of the most fun I've ever had gaming, was back in the day, when we were playing BF:1942 and BF2, and I'd just throw in a bunch of bots and we'd go co-op against them or split up and VS each other with full bot teams.

To be honest, we've always had way more fun doing that, than playing on public servers with the typical idiots/griefers/hackers who tend to play there. We avoid that as much as we can. So we always need bots.

Game is a total failure if it doesn't:- Get rid of the putrid client-side netcode (get behind cover...and then die, YAY!!!)- Dumps the console gimmicks like scope glint and suppression- Have spectator mode/battlerecorder- Maps built for actual 64-player capacity, not horrific console-port maps (Compare BF2 Karkand with BF3 Karkand /end of discussion)- Have expanded squad-system with IN GAME VOIP

If DICE fails to address even one of those glaring issues I won't even consider Battlefield 4, at this point DICE can burn to the ground with big daddy EA.

Jivaro wrote on Mar 19, 2013, 10:41:I know I am preaching to the choir....but damn I wish they would include bots for offline play and even DLC with content that would be interesting to a single player user. I may be on my own island here, but I actually liked the single player campaign in BF3. More of that would have been worth money to me.

While I would like to see bots included in the game their SP campaign implementation was sorely lacking. It was so scripted that if you didn't do exactly what was expected in exactly the way they expected you to do it, it broke the game and you couldn't progress until you found out where you fucked up and went back to trigger whatever script didn't fire off. Bought it day one and played the SP for less than an hour. Pumped about 60 hours into the MP before the hacker deluge made me move on.

So on the list for the new game, I would like:

Bot supportAnti-cheat that actually fucking worksVoice chat (how you release a game like this without it these days baffles me)And totally destructible environments with deformable terrain (probably a pipe dream)